When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their...
A great man is always willing to be little.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half poss...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
The years teach much which the days never know.
Our best thoughts come from others.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
The surest poison is time.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Give all to love obey thy heart.
The years teach us much, which the days never knew.